PopUp Workshop!

Coming up soon on Sunday, March 29, 2020 with CBBAG at 180 Shaw St. in Toronto.

All day PopUp Workshop with Painted papers - learn lots of cool pop up techniques and go home with your very own 3-D Accordion Book.

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Also - on Saturday, March 28th, Surfaces: Painted Paper Workshop. Enjoy a full day of messing about with acrylic paints to create wonderful decorated papers for all your artistic needs. 

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 Pop-Up Accordion Book Workshop

Timed and designed to beat the Winter Doldrums - a Pop-Up Workshop! Make something to make you happy - join me at Neilson Park Creative Centre for two days of making paper pop-ups collected into an Accordion Book. Saturday and Sunday, February 24 & 25. Check it out here. 

PopUp Workshop - November 11 at Meta4 Gallery

Join me for a great day of Paper Engineering at Meta4 Gallery in Port Perry.

Everything is supplied, including a delicious lunch at a local restaurant.

Using colourful hand-painted papers, you'll learn how to make a  Pop-Up art piece that moves when you open and close it. 

 You will finish the piece with backing boards so you have a lovely work of art to display. 

These gallery workshops are a lot of fun and well worth the drive to Port Perry. Bring a friend and enjoy a day of creating with me! 

Weekend Workshop at META4 Gallery

A stellar crop of PopUps from a fabulous group in Port Perry this Saturday. It was a beautiful day and we had a lot of fun learning how to make these nested parallel folds and platforms. Everyone took their piece in a different direction with lots of great ideas. They kept me on my toes and, as always, made me think about new directions for my own work. A big Thank You to the owners of META4 - Jen, Birgitta, and Bonnie!

Student Work

This March, I was invited to teach a five-day PopUp workshop at Cawthra Park Secondary School with Grade 9 and 10 Visual Arts students. I worked with them last year, too, and I have to say that they're an awesome group of people to work with! They take what I teach them and run with it. We used coloured paper to make concertina books with end boards. Every day I showed them a different kind of paper-engineering device. Their themes were Figures, Heroes, and Space (inner or outer). I didn't see the finished books until I was invited to the Spring Artfest - an annual showcase of student work. Their books just blew me away - so many creative ways of exploring the given themes and such a high level of skill and talent. Each book different - playing with a variety of colour schemes, delicate hand-cut designs, humour, inventive engineering - they humble me. Above are just a few samples of the students' work, to give you an idea of how well the books turned out. 

Results like this make it all worthwhile!